throughout history goyim have often felt like enlightened geniuses for deciding “the jews did this” and then one (1) massacre later are absolutely gobsmacked to learn that killing jews did not solve whatever problem they decided was our fault that tuesday. ad fucking infinitum.

Like you gotta love when someone starts ranting and raving about how Jews are faking their history and deserved to be expelled from every country in the Middle East and control the world and faked/deserved Oct 7th and you're like ok so you're a Neo Nazi. And the person pulls out the reverse UNO trump card ummmm sweaty I'm LITERALLY JEWISH how can I be antisemitic 🤪🤪💅 and then you search their blog and they have either never mentioned being Jewish in their entire 15 years on the internet OR they conveniently started posting about how they're Jewish immediately after Oct 7th (while celebrating the murder of civilian Jews ofc).

Like babygirl who do you think you're fooling rn. Not me lol.

yeah, he sure is

Guys for fuck's sake he took himself out of the group chat because he is a) aware that he does not have security clearance to see what they were discussing b) aware that they will use this fact to prosecute him/go after other people at his magazine. Sometimes, someone's opinion on Zionism is not actually relevant to the specific deeply insane news story they accidentally got bundled into that in a sane world would see everyone else in the group chat fired and arrested for treason, and bringing it up as it it's a mitigating factor is just being conspiratorial about da joos. You can dislike or even hate this person without doing a pepe silvia board that makes the most consequential opsec failure of the past eighty years a, what. I'm not even sure what's going on here. Is this a Mossad plot? Is that what's being claimed?

Maybe you're this stupid, you dumbfuck. EVERYTHING ALIGNS WHEN ITS DA JOOOS. Gee I wonder fucking why.

You're right, he should have sat on it for 2 years and then published a book about it while blaming Democrats. You're so right wow.

A conservative journalist who had integrity and reported on it.

Oh it 'explains some stuff' What ARE you going to 'notice' next.

A journalist reported on an unprecedented violation of security and on what people were saying but 'he tried to get coats to be pro israel' so he's an asshole instead of you, who clearly knows journalism better. Coates dipped out of the US for Paris during Trump I, he went to Israel for 2 weeks to write his magnum opus of bullshit, and he comes by his Jew-hatred honestly, he just lib/leftwashed it.

The National Book Foundation is defending its decision to honor publisher W. Paul Coates, father of the influential journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, with its Literarian lifetime achievement award, despite his press having published a work that’s been accused of being antisemitic.

In September, Jewish Insider reported that Coates’s Black Classic Press, was continuing to publish The Jewish Onslaught, a 1993 work from then-Wellesly College Africana Studies Tony Martin.

The book describes the backlash Martin, who died in 2013, faced for teaching a discredited Nation of Islam book about the history of Jews involved in the slave trade. It also claims Jewish people joined the Civil Rights Movement to win acceptance from white elites as part of a larger “Jewish onslaught against Black progress.”

At the time of its publication, the book was heavily criticized by civil rights groups like the Anti-Defamation League and repudiated by the leadership of Wellesley College.

Gotta cite a benedict cumberbatch movie about Alan Turing to show that deep WWII knowledge and calling someone who DID NEWS REPORTING a 'bootlicker' for reporting the news as you further cook yourself.

Just say Jewish, Jack, this is taking forever

What does 'it' explain

What is a 'zionist'? What is a centrist? Why is a 'zionist' worse than a 'centrist'

These comments are doing a great job being zionist because they're sure as shit convincing the Jews reading them they have no place in the diaspora and can't trust anyone left or Ritchie Torres with their safety. Congratulations! You too are a zionist now! You dumb motherfuckers say you want good, hard hitting journalism about what the assholes in power are up to but when it happens you're more mad at the person who broke the story and the Democrats for not 'stopping it' than you are with the rapist fratboy bullshit that is actually the thing Hillary Clinton got dragged through the dirt for being accused of but not actually DOING. You all hate Jews, you hate journalism, and you love Republicans, because you sure as shit don't seem to think they have any agency.

You'd join the KKK, the nazis, or the black hundreds in a heartbeat if it would net you the social approval you crave. Sensitive 'antizionism' is what you have now.

- Yair Rosenberg

9/19/23

It's honestly amazing how deeply committed a number of people are to absolutely idiotic reactionary antisemitism. All there has to be is the most tenuous connection to Jews or Judaism, and they're off speeding into the distance in hot pursuit of that detail, the rest of the issue at hand being completely forgotten except where it's useful to prove that the Jew in question is corrupt or evil.

We find out that Trump's goons are using insufficiently secure messaging apps to discuss their bombing plans in southern Yemen, to the point of having invited in a known journalist into the chat, and what's the only thing a significant portion of people can discuss?

That the journalist was Jewish, and therefore somehow morally responsible for the resulting bombings against the Houthis. Not the fascists being dumb, or cruel, or xenophobic, but that there was a Jew involved.

Seriously, these people are so bigoted and so easily distracted by the slightest sniff of the object of their bigotry. In the end, there's no difference between them and those right-wingers who throw a tantrum when there's a hint of melanin involved.

The Trump administration is cracking down on student protests because it serves their anti-woke and anti-education agenda and that's extremely gross of them. That does not mean the protests aren't hotbeds of antisemitism. Please believe Jews when they say protesters have used antisemitic rhetoric or called for violence against Jews. Please believe them when they say protesters have called them slurs or spat at them or even assaulted them. Nothing can be gained by letting this slide.

Please understand that this moment is scary for American Jews because the antisemitism is coming from all sides. Yes, the Trump administration is talking a big game about antisemitism while simultaneously giving notorious antisemite Elon Musk an alarming amount of power while Trump rages on about (((globalists))). Yes, leftists are refusing to say shit about antisemitism in their movements, attacking anyone who mentions it with dogwhistles and slurs, and supporting those who do the worst of it as people advocating for justice and human rights.

It's so isolating. We look around and there are so few allies. We are 2% of the American population, and we are overwhelmingly concentrated in specific places. Many Americans have never met a Jew, and simultaneously, America is home to the largest diaspora community by far. It's six million in America, and then the second largest is less than 500,000 in France. Less than 16 million worldwide. That's what happens after thousands of years of ethnic cleansing, targeted violence, and genocide.

We can't do this alone. We need you right now. We need you to see antisemitism everywhere it is festering. Speaking up against antisemitism is advocating for justice and human rights, and it's not anti-Palestinian to do so. The people who say otherwise are lying to you.

Please listen to us.

it’s really hard because trump & co are out here using us as scapegoats for their anti-immigrant, anti-arab, and anti-muslim agendas. they are eroding american rights/laws in the name of “fighting antisemitism.” they are conflating israel’s gov with its citizens, and israel as a nation with the entirety of the jewish people around the globe. and all that does is put us in more danger.

it does not endear us to the right, who never actually cared about us but do claim to out of their mouths to create a convenient excuse for their bigotry while using their hands to act against us themselves.

and it makes us resented by the left, who appear incapable of seeing through this thin veneer of “protection” for the endangerment it is. instead we are viewed as the enemy for daring to have the “privilege” of having violence enacted in our names—violence we did not want nor ask for nor even support, for the most part.

and so we’re trapped in the middle as all these groups play keep away together with our safety, whether they realize they’re doing it or not

The Columbia University Taskforce on Antisemitism 2nd Report is out. And it's a doozy. https://president.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/Announcements/Report-2-Task-Force-on-Antisemitism.pdf

Before I get into the nitty gritty of it let me pretty much summarize and paraphrase the Taskforce's position: "Holy shit the antisemitism on campus is so much worse than we thought, and it's repeatedly done by people saying they're 'just anti-Zionists'".

Let's start with the Taskforce's working definition of antisemitism.

Fig. 1. Columbia Taskforce on Antisemitism definition of antisemitism

This is a pretty good definition as it includes such things as Holocaust Denial, perceived ties to Israel, double standards, and all the usual things. It pretty much encompasses everything we have witnessed and experienced since Oct 7th. However, the Taskforce then follows it up with this bit.

Fig. 2. Columbia Taskforce on Antisemitism says their definition should not be used outside of training and education.

By saying that their working definition of antisemitism should not be used outside of training and education purposes the Taskforce is pretty much admitting upfront that the antisemitism they are reporting on falls well within their definition and breaks Columbia University code of conduct to the point where the perpetrators would and should receive various punishments ranging from suspensions to expulsions to revocations.

This is an example of the double standards that Jews experience. If this was a taskforce working to find evidence and address any other form of bigotry and racism then there would be recommendations made using the working definition. The irony is that they talk about double standards right in their definition. Now, of course the whole argument comes down to First Amendment Rights. But speech that induces and instigates violence against individuals and/or ethnic/racial groups is not protected. Considering that the Taskforce found calls to violence against Jews then this is not covered. Furthermore, while supporting terrorism is covered by the First Amendment, material support includes distributing terrorist approved and produced materials, of which many students and groups like CUAD are on record doing (even on their own social media) is not.

The report then does what we always, always, always see when it comes to anything with antisemitism. It recommends training on antisemitism AND islamophobia. Now, I am for this personally. A lot of others might be like "Why link the two?! It's always like this!" but I think training on both serves a purpose.

Now, will such education and training actually address these issues? Of course not. They'll likely be opposed and never implemented.

Let's move on, shall we? The report then gets into it's introduction and tells us that they heard from nearly 500 students ranging from undergrads to post-docs about their antisemitic experiences. These testimonies come from Zionists, anti-Zionists, non-Zionists, and those the Taskforce couldn't exactly label. Furthermore, those that did not attend the listening sessions did what we've seen all antisemite do since 10/7; they denied the experience of these students and the Taskforce acknowledges this.

That's huge.

Acknowledging that the greater Columbia University community is denying the antisemitic experiences of these students whom are across the political spectrum and academic experience is signaling to the antisemites that the victims will not be drowned out by the mob with pitchforks.

They then follow it up with this.

Fig. 3. Acknowledgement that the antisemitism students are experiencing does lead to physical violence and has historical precedent.

The Taskforce is admitting and acknowledging that Columbia University has failed in fulfilling part of its mandate in protecting students and addressing acts of bigotry, hate, and violence towards students and students of a particular group. By also acknowledging that antisemitic rhetoric has a historical precedent of leading to physical violence they are also admitting that they know how bad it is and it needs to be addressed.

They then recommend that the university change its policies because of the utter failure to address these incidents. Further elaborating that some of the incidents actually violate state and federal law and that the university is culpable in such cases and the university itself is, once again, adhering to double standards for its Jewish and Israeli students.

The report then goes into the incidents students experienced starting with section 1B. Student Experiences in Day-to-Day Encounters. I will not go over that here in detail, but it contains multiple testimonies and excerpts from testimonies about the antisemitism the Jewish students experienced since 10/7. What is important to note is that the Taskforce acknowledges the "slippage" of anti-Zionism into antisemitism in the majority of these incidents, that the perpetrators don't think they're doing so, but to everyone else it is very clearly happening.

Fig. 4. Taskforce stating that anti-Zionist activities have fallen into classic antisemitic tropes and canards on Columbia's campus(es).

Furthermore, the Taskforce acknowledges that Jewish and Israeli students purposefully had their words misinterpreted to villainize them. Any attempt at facilitating discussion or understanding was dismissed with heavy prejudice.

The Taskforce also talks about how social media has played a role in the harassment of Jewish and Israeli students.

Fig. 5. Student testimony and screenshotting of antisemitism online from Columbia students and orgs.

Moving on to section C. Student Experiences in Clubs, we find one of the most heinous incidents.

Fig. 6. Founder of an LGBTQIA+ group defends their antisemitism then acknowledges it and brags that they got away with it.

This incident highlights one of the issues we have seen since 10/7 where people place Jews as "white oppressors" to validate their antisemitism. They engage in open antisemitic conspiracy and defend it through the use of progressive language that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to address their bigotry. Why? Because a person like this will fall back to being a minority themselves to say that they can't be a bigot. This type of defense is hypocritical and is solely used to silence any attempt to address their hate, to which this student fully acknowledges as she bragged that she got away with it.

This is why Columbia University apologizing to Khymani James after expelling them for their comments about "Zionists don't deserve to live" and that we were "lucky" they weren't out there killing them right now is so abhorrent. Across the internet we saw accusations of white supremacy and silencing BIPOC and queer voices because of Khymani's sexual identity and ethnicity. Is this not the kind of weaponization that antisemites accuse Jews of? This is projection and the testimony above and the Khymani incident highlight this type of behavior. You don't get to be a hateful bigot simply because you're a minority, but the double standard for Jews is a consistent issue.

As the report continues we then find out that the CUAD is not just one group, but actually a coalition that has multiple student clubs and organizations underneath it. CUAD demands that its member clubs and orgs adhere to its mission and rhetoric. According to the report, any student in a club or org that didn't express outright (((anti-Israel))) sentiment was silenced and eventually ousted and/or removed. In almost all incidents, any group signing on or joining the CUAD coalition did not abide by their own rules and excluded any and all Jewish and Israeli students from the process. If they spoke up they were told their opinions did not matter and were removed.

This coalition is further expanded upon in section E (I'm skipping D as it is about curriculum issues and is much shorter). Testimony points out that CUAD is a coalition made of over a hundred student organizations and that they are also bringing in outsiders to the campus. So the claims of "outside agitators" are moot because it was CUAD who brought them there in the first place. The intent was also never to be a peaceful protest or encampment as multiple testimonies talk about the violent language and actions within the encampments and across the campus(es). Specifically the language being used during "vigils" was not about peace or in memorium, but celebrating death and highlighting violence. The issues that the Taskforce learned are, I think, best encapsulated by this paragraph from page 36 in section G.

Fig. 7. Paragraph highlighting how Columbia is now seen as an antisemitic university.

I can attest to Columbia now being seen as the antisemitic university. Its reputation is entirely tarnished by the administrations refusal to act on the very real and violent antisemitism that has been present on its campus since the days after 10/7. I know professors who have turned down jobs, grad students that have withdrawn applications, and donors that have stopped giving.

This report by Columbia University's own personnel provides evidence that contradicts the narrative we have been told by members of the CUAD encampment(s) as well as people across social media; that the antisemitism is fake and made up to prevent criticism of Israel. The Taskforce admits that they were astonished by how bad it actually was and that the university refused to do anything. This should be telling to anyone who has witnessed these claims by people trying to dismiss concerns regarding antisemitism in the pro-Palestine movement. We've seen this across social media and this site where antisemites accuse Jews of being Nazis while they themselves spew antisemitic rhetoric straight out of the Protocols and the Third Reich.

Antisemites will always try and paint Jews as the actual perpetrators of hate, violence, and villainy while they themselves commit those very same acts (that is not to say that no Jew has every committed a crime or any such act themselves, but the projection that we have seen by antisemites is massive). This Taskforce report has multiple testimonies of Jewish students just trying to exist and go about their lives to only be harassed and assaulted for the crime of living while Jewish.

I am going to end this post here as the next section after the testimonies and incidents of antisemitism goes into recommendations for the university and actions to be taken. That is a separate post that will be couched in this one later on.

according to antisemites, jews are filfthy subhuman rats, but are also wealthy, privileged-beyond-comprehension elites.

according to antisemites about the holocaust, the holocaust didn't happen, but if it did, it wasn't that bad, and it was a good thing, because jews deserved it.

according to antisemites about oct 7, it also didnt happen, but it should have, and when faced with proof it did occur, "well, anything is justified if its against jews under occupation."

according to antisemites, all jews are white, which makes them uber privileged and in desperate need of humbling, but also jews are brown, middle-eastern interlopers who are trying to destroy the white race from the inside.

can yall pick a script and stick to it for more than three seconds? its tiring to deal with.

"I Decide Who Is a Jew" Redux

Leo Terrell just reposted a prominent White supremacist's claim, in reference to Donald Trump declaring that Chuck Schumer is not a Jew but a "Palestinian", that "Trump has the ability to revoke someone’s Jew card." Who is Leo Terrell, you may ask? Why, he's Donald Trump's "antisemitism czar". Can't make this up.* But in reality, the claimed entitlement by (non-Jewish) conservatives to decide who does and does not count as Jewish has been waxing for some time now. In my "Liberal Jews and Religious Liberty" article, I made an observation about the contemporary salience of Vienna Mayor Kari Lueger's famous declaration "I decide who is a Jew": Lueger made this statement in response to criticisms that there was an inconsistency between his publicly professed antisemitism and his private friendships with certain Viennese Jews; a contradiction resolved by Lueger simply declaring that the Jews he liked were not actually Jews at all. In the spirit of the old saw “a philosemite is an antisemite who loves Jews,” the modern iteration—where the hated Jews are denied to be Jews and the few acceptable Jews deemed the only actual Jews—flips Lueger’s pattern but fundamentally replicates it. In that article, I grouped this practice into what I termed the "new supersessionism": "the ability of non-Jews to possess, as against actual Jews, a superior entitlement to declare what Jewishness is." The original supersessionism was theological: Christianity simply declares itself to be the true and proper evolution of Judaism; the Jews themselves got Jewishness wrong. Today's supersessionism is more often political: Christians informing Jews that holding Jewish positions on issues like abortion or gay rights mean they are not real Jews at all. And having declared that these Jews -- which is to say, most Jews -- are not "real Jews", there of course can be no antisemitism in hating them.  In this way, contemporary conservatives can square the otherwise impossible circle: their self-identity of loving (their self-constructed image of) "Jews", and their actual practice of hating (real-life, flesh-and-blood) Jews. It is the natural terminus of that mode of thinking that a nominal leader of a taskforce against antisemitism would promote antisemitism of the most despicable kind -- we are not the Jews he ever intended to protect, we are the Jews he seeks justification to hate. * In fairness, we all know how committed today's conservatives are to originalism, and originally speaking a "czar" absolutely refers to someone who promotes antisemitism, not one who combats it. Let it never be said that Donald Trump isn't taking conservatism back to its roots. via The Debate Link https://ift.tt/Lo1hnaO

Between "Jews are white oppressors so it's impossible to commit systemic violence against them, only individualized violence" and "by any means necessary" and "when people in the Middle East say 'Jews' they really mean 'Israelis', it's a cultural thing" and "Palestinians don't owe anyone the distinction between Zionists and Jews" and "intersectionality means this is everyone's fight", you get a narrative where it's okay for anyone to hurt any Jew in any way they'd like.